3a) Seeing them a week today, hopefully going to be ACE
5) was meant to be seeing these Warp guys on weds at midnight, turned up and the stage times had been put back 2.5 hrs. Ridiculous. Needless to say unfortunately missed them>
9b)New record is fucking awesome. Lots of drive and really damned cohesive and tight. Very, very good.

1) This album is really hot shit.
2) Oh man, to have been there at Reading.
4) Anyone going to the ULU date? I'm weighing it up - blaming my ambivalence about them at ATP on a combination of Fuck Buttons being on at the same time and being a little under the influence.
7) a) Leather Penny is rippin'

1) Just caught the last couple of minutes of them at Green Man, but liked what I heard. Definitely going to make an effort to see them at End of the Road.
2) Heard these on the Tom Lax WFMU show. Lo-fi German post-punk. Don't know a lot about them. Their last.fm bio is terribly translated.
3) Not my usual type of thing, but I really like The Snake. Looking forward to seeing them at EOTR.

01 I think I was reading the Mos Def review this week and it mentioned Q-Tip so I stuck them on spotify. Only really knew his stuff from the singles, De La Soul and Beastie Boys. Buggin Out and If The Papes Come are excellent tracks.
02 yum
10 delicious

Newcastle's mighty Bong have a double cd and the second cd is a thirty minute version of Set The Controls by Pink Floyd. They are sort of like the more stoned and more evil version of Sleep with added tasteful sitar. There are probably about fifteen minutes of mellow repetition of the riff to start with and it is so so good.

Also the newish Mark McGuire cd just arrived direct from oh-hi-ho and it's another total winner. He almost gets an entire muffled sounding band out of his guitar on one track and there are some acoustic guitar bits too. Top flight hypnagogic poop.

but I couldn't believe some of the stuff was on spotify. There are also a couple of compilations on there "German Neo-Psych Classics" and "Die NO-FUN singles" which have got more of the bands played, but I haven't really had a proper listen through yet.

4 minnie the moocher - i like to do the tumpet noises under my breath and sneak around like the men in the pictures
7b huge stoner doom... i always liked them but the new un is up there with electric wizard at their best
9 drunk punk ftw
10 four years behind established taste i think steady as she goes is a really well put together song
13c bafflecore

Very nice EP's one on Bearsuit thats kind of dreamy and the other on Rack & Ruin which is more noise based insanity, they both have this mad lo-fi electronic pop thing going on too but in completly diffrent directions. The R&R release is free and will be up some time soon no doubt.

New Pausal on Highpoint Lowlife really nice ambient drones loving it. And I cant stop playing 10-20 also on the label he is just brilliant.

I've been checking out some Oneida just from the odd free track P4k put up a while ago it sounds pretty cool I was wondering if the latest album is worth a look I need more new deranged rock music in my life.

1) Top of the weekly charts for at least 4 weeks in a row I make it now. Black Ships Eat the Sky and Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre are both excellent.

7a) a new purchase, 'With Echoes in the Movement Of Stone'. Really good, obvious Neurosis influences, as with all post-metal, but there's a strong 70's psychedelic slant on it, with quite warm production, and quite melodic vocals and organs etc, but still monolithic and crushing.

7b) Another new purchase, again really good. Sort of like a looser, less moody Grails, with strange vocals and hijacked South East Asian ethnic instruments, but the music is far from the joke the name suggests. They were very good live at Supersonic too.

9) Their new album, Bag It!. Really great, recommended for fans of Zu (especially anybody who likes the collaberation they did with Mats Gustaffon, who plays saxophone in the Thing).

but I don't know if it'll be one of those albums I play obsessively for about a month and then forget about, or something more long term. The best tracks off their last one, like Revival, are still as good as they were initially, so I'm hopeful. It's worth getting, imo. Check it out on spotify first if you want. I think you'll like Minsk and MMoB too. The Minsk album certainly sounds quite different to most post-metal/sludge stuff I've heard so far (although you can pick out the odd influence) which is a pretty good start considering how crowded with copy-cat bands that market is. And the MMoB achieves a very healthy balance of irreverence and seriousness, and has some genuinely good song-writing in there.

2. I watched them by accident at Indietracks whilst queueing for curry in the rain. I felt like shit and they instantly made everything better. Thinking of going to see them again at the Luminaire next month.
3. All from the Great British Holiday EPs. Ukulele Songs From Devon Coast > Caravan Songs > Minehead > Eastbourne Lights.
5A. Safe as Milk is still one of my favourite albums ever.
11A. I think the first Au album is actually better, if less showy. It's a bit of a weepy one though :(
13. I saw Darren Hayman on Friday. He was superb

1 Chromeo have absolutely ruled my week - this list doesn't show that She's In Control wasn't removed from my CD player for a good 5 days. But Fancy Footwork is the real moneyshot, a perfectly crafted, perfectly produced, perfectly badass record. These guys know how to drop in an impeccable synth vamp or vocoder trill just when you think things can't get any better.

The Pissed Jeans album is awesome, so is the APTBS – both are really exciting and visceral and physical – and the PJ record makes me grind my teeth and gurn in a weird way. Aggressively I think, judging by looks on the bus.

Has there been a Neon Indian thread on these boards? I Should Have Taken Acid With You and Local Joke are super summer sensation songs.

Gold Panda is away more interesting than I was expecting: loads of cool little ripples – same for the XX too.

vivian girls - cant get enough of this bands new lp
thee oh sees - mainly "grease 2","block of ice" and "ghost in the trees" astounding band.
scientist - been checkin out lots of dub,scientist,tommy mcook and the aggrovators and king tubby
vetiver - mainly "you may be blue" love that song,goin to see them at end of the road.

Heard a great band this week called "the come n go" this week,2008 album "somethings got to give" on voodoo rythym records,its brilliant.